Question follow-through · 40036
Business: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including measures to require boards to report on cyber resilience in the draft Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including measures to require boards to report on cyber resilience in the draft Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
All large and medium-sized companies are already required to report on their material risks within their annual strategic report, including on cyber risk where this is a material risk. Recognising the important strategic role that boards of directors play...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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